Marek's disease
[ mar-iks, mahr- ]
/ ˈmær ɪks, ˈmɑr- /
noun Veterinary Pathology.
a contagious cancerous disease of poultry, caused by a herpesvirus and characterized by proliferation of lymphoid cells and paralysis of a limb or the neck.
Also called
fowl paralysis,
range paralysis.
Origin of Marek's disease
after Hungarian veterinarian József
Marek (1868–1952), who described it in 1907